Research

​Published papers:

  • The Global Variation in Risk and Time Preferences
     with Christina Bohrner, Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman, and Uwe Sunde, prepared for Handbook of Culture and Economic Behavior (edited by Benjamin Enke, Paola Giuliano, Nathan Nunn and Leonard Wantchekon), forthcoming​

  • On the Economic Origins of Concerns over Women’s Chastity [PDF]
              Review of Economic Studies, 2025, Vol. 92, No. 4, pp. 2303--2329

  • The Preference Survey Module: A Validated Instrument for Measuring Time, Risk, and Social Preferences [PDF]
               with Armin Falk, Thomas Dohmen, David Huffman, and Uwe Sunde, Management Science, 2022, Vol. 69, No. 4, pp. 1935--1950

  • Tabulated Nonsense? Testing the Validity of the Ethnographic Atlas [PDF]
               with Duman Bahrami-Rad and Joseph Henrich, Economics Letters, 2021, 204, 109880

  • Ancient Origins of the Global Variation in Economic Preferences [PDF]
               AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2020, 110, pp. 310--323 
               with Benjamin Enke and Armin Falk

  • Global Evidence on Economic Preferences [PDF]
               Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2018, 133(4), pp. 1645--1692 (Lead Article) 
               with Armin Falk, Thomas Dohmen, Benjamin Enke, David Huffman, and Uwe Sunde

  • Representative Evidence on Lying Costs [PDF]
               Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 113, pp. 96--104
               with Johannes Abeler and Armin Falk

  • No Evidence For an Effect of Testosterone Administration on Delay Discounting in Male University Students
               Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2013, 38(9), 1814--1818
               with Georgia Ortner, Matthias Wibral, Thomas Dohmen, Dietrich Klingmüller, Armin Falk, and Bernd Weber

  • The Relationship Between Economic Preferences and Psychological Personality Measures [PDF]
                Annual Review of Economics, 2012, 4(1), 453--478
                with Thomas Deckers, Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, and Fabian Kosse


​Working papers:

  • Age at Marriage and Concerns over Women's Chastity [pdf]

  • Pastoralism and Women in the Labor Market [pdf]

  • Cultural Change during the Second Industrial Revolution: Evidence from Sweden [draft coming soon]
    with Gustav Agneman and Anne Sofie Beck Knudsen.
               
Work in progress:

  • The Causes and Consequences of Concerns over Women's Chastity [in preparation for Annual Review of Economics]
    with Lindsey Novak.